We love liveaboard scuba diving trips. You squeeze a lot of diving into a single week, in a way that isn’t possible on land-based trips. You also avoid lugging your gear around every day. And in some more remote places, it’s your only option.
While some dive sites can be accessed from land (or from resorts on the cays), liveaboards are better equipped to cover a broader range of dive sites, including the Great Blue Hole.
We visited Belize in February, as an escape from our Canadian winter. Our home for the week was the Belize Aggressor III, a 110-foot yacht with 9 staterooms. We splurged on the single “master” stateroom, located on the sun deck.
While Belize didn’t offer the same large animal life we’ve seen in other Caribbean destinations, it offered the best coral formations we’ve seen.
The topside views of the islands and cays was pure paradise. And despite being in (under) the water 5 times each day, we moored over such beautiful sand bars that we couldn’t resists jumping off the sun deck into the pristine water for swims (even dropping the GoPro into the sea).
A picture-perfect sandy island surrounded by turquoise water off the coat of Belize Exploring the Caribbean sea off the cost fo Belize aboard the Belize Aggressor III The coral formations in Belize were some of the most pristine we’ve seen A yellow tube sponge with a scuba diver and the Belize Aggressor III liveaboard in the background One of several sea turtles we saw in Belize Yellow tube sponges in Belize A scuba diver in silhouette between a coral channel in Belize Scuba diver (Keith) over the coral reef in Belize A brittlestar on the coral reef in Belize An octopus on the coral reef during a night dive in Belize The Belize Aggressor III liveaboard yacht
